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Letters Patent No. 72,800, dated December 31, 1867.

I IMPROVEMENT IN SWIFT.

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`TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL-COME:

Be it known that I, EBEN M. COFFIN, of Woburn, -in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Swift for reeling a skein of thread or yarn; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following,l specification, and represented in 'the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure I is a side elevation, Figure 2 a longitudinal section, and Figure 3 a transverse seetion-of it. In the drawings, A A are two throated arms arranged between the two jaws al: of a rotary` clamp, B, and4 applied to one of such jaws, so as to be capable of being moved on centres c c extended therefrom, the same A being so as to enable the two arms to be moved on.the centres c c, either toward or away from one another. A

screw, d, goes through the movable `jaw b, and screws into the other jaw, which is erected on a base, 1l/,to which the jaw b is hinged. A pivot orjonrnal, e, projects down from'the base of the clamp B, and turns in a bearing, f, made in another or screw-ciampi), which is formed and provided with e'. screw, g, in manner as represented l in the igures. v I

By lmeans of theV clam-p C the swift may be iied to the edge of'a table. The skein is to be placed within the forks of the two arms, and such arms are to be turned down until the skein may be stretched out with a.

sucient tightness to' keep it in the forks, while the arms and their clamp B may be put in revolution during i the process of winding the skein.

I claim the improved swift as made of the two forked arms A A and the two clamps B C, arranged and f combined substantialy in manner as specied. l

' EBEN M. COFFIN.

Witnesses:

l. R. Snow. F. P. HALE, Jr. 

